Power Quotes
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.Margaret Thatche
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.Richard M. DeVos
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.Joel E. Ross
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Bertrand Russell
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.Eric Hoffe
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.Mahatma Gandhi
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.Thomas Hobbes
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.Emile Coue
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.Emily Taft Douglas
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honore de Balzac
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.Lyman Bryson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - Verse 8
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.Egyptian Book of the Dead
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.Thucyclides
